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Is this a building, or an optical illusion? Either way, it mesmerised us each time we spied it through our hotel window. 📸 Catherine Marshall of The Travel Collective. www.timetowander.com.au.

Can you spot the sculpture through the window of Georgia O’Keeffe’s adobe house in Abiquiu, New Mexico? This was one of many versions she cast later in life, and it was derived from one of her early horn paintings. 📸 Catherine Marshall of The Travel Collective. www.timetowander.com.au

The smaller sign on this door says ‘Be nice or leave’. 🤭😂And it was easy to obey, since the shop is crammed with bright, happy homewares. 📸 Catherine Marshall of The Travel Collective. www.timetowander.com.au

‘The guy at the gas pumps, he’s got a lot of soul.’ - Joni Mitchell. Today TTW had a long chat with Johnny Meier, who has amassed an extraordinary collection of auto memorabilia at the Classic Gas Museum in the hamlet of Embudo (population 21). And we discovered there’s more to him than retro gas pumps, classic cars and and engine oil cans: he was once a scientist who developed military-grade lasers. 📸 Catherine Marshall of The Travel Collective. www.timetowander.com.au

Russian sagebrush and adobe: a colour marriage made in New Mexico heaven. 📸 Catherine Marshall of The Travel Collective. www.timetowander.com.au

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes - Marcel Proust.